Objetive: Within the framework of the activities of the project "Transformative Reactivation: Overcoming the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean", executed by ECLAC together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) of Germany, and the United Nations Development Account project “Strengthening Social Protection for Pandemic Responses: Identifying the Vulnerable, Aiding Recovery and Building Resilience", the event seeks to promote the exchange of experiences on the learning and challenges that the pandemic has shown in pension systems, with a view of progress towards strengthened welfare states and universal, comprehensive and sustainable social protection systems. In particular, the event addresses elements on the designs of these systems and their implications for the sustainability of their results and the priority aspects to be considered in reform processes to advance in pension systems guided by principles of social solidarity and gender equality.

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Programme: 

Moderator: Claudia Robles, Social Affairs Officer, Social Development Division, ECLAC

16:30 - 16:35: Welcome to the meeting
•Alberto Arenas de Mesa , Director of the Social Development Division, ECLAC.
• Manfred Häbig, Principal Advisor of the Cooperation Program ECLACBMZ/giz.

16:35 - 16:45: Elements to consider in the processes of reforming pension systems in the face of the challenges evidenced by the pandemic.
• Alberto Arenas de Mesa, Director of the Social Development Division, ECLAC.

16:45 – 17:45: Lessons learned for social protection systems in the face of the pandemic
• Dr. Rocío Aguilar, Superintendent of Pensions of Costa Rica
• Dr. Walter Borja Rojas, Head of the Peruvian Social Security Office
• Dr. Andras Uthoff, International consultant
• Dr. Ernesto Murro, Member of the Committee of Experts on Social Security of Uruguay and of the Committee of Experts of the OISS for more solid and universal Post-Covid-19 Social Protection Systems

17:45 – 18:00: Comments and closing
• Fabio Bertranou, Fabio Bertranou, Director ILO Office for the Southern Cone of Latin America
• Claudia Robles, Social Affairs Officer, Social Development Division, ECLAC